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Alec Guinness really achieved the impossible. Creating a character that was simultaneously too offensive to exist and too likable to be allowed. That’s a 100% efficiency rating in the offending everyone category.

The 1948 film adaptation of Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean, was banned by both Egypt and Israel, yet for entirely opposite reasons. In Israel, which had been established only a few years earlier in the shadow of the Holocaust, the government found the portrayal of the character Fagin—played by Alec Guinness—deeply offensive. They viewed the exaggerated makeup, the hooked nose, and the greedy mannerisms as a revival of vicious anti-Semitic stereotypes, and thus banned the film to protect Jewish dignity. At the exact same time, Egypt also banned the film, but for the reverse rationale. The Egyptian authorities feared that Fagin was depicted as too clever, too heroic, and too sympathetic, believing that such a positive portrayal of a Jewish character would inspire Arabs to feel solidarity with Jews and Zionism.

There was a similar problem with Disneys Song of the South. White conservative group hated it because it showed white kids looking up to a black man. Civil rights groups hated it because it showed a black man being friends with his former enslave. Disney tried to make a movie that bridged the gap between the two audiences and ended up just pissing off both sides

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